Catherine Dann Email & Phone Number

Stanmore, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Working alongside the Commercial team within the Consumer area of BT, supporting them to achieve their strategic vision for the future.

Hertfordshire

"Keeping people at the heart of everything we do"You've worked hard to build your business and it's reputation. Now its time to expand, while maintaining what's made it successful in the first place but how do this ?Its achieved by a simple, but strategic People plan that focuses on emotional loyalty and engagement. This in turn creates an environment of genuine customer service, that delights everyday.I can support you to do this by :- Helping you to develop a unique culture and having a plan to sustain this as growth happens- Supporting you to attract, grow and retain talent to be your leaders of the future- Working alongside you to establish an operating model with flexibility for tomorrow- Ensuring you have an HR function with capability and capacity for your growing workforceI can work with you in different ways :- For you : I can deliver a specific business solution - With you : I can work alongside you as a coach or mentorYou can contact me by email (catherine@embraceconsultancy.co.uk)Or hear what I am saying by following me on twitter (cath_embrace), check out my website (www.embraceconsultancy.co.uk) or signing up for the newsletter belowEmbrace Consultancy can make this happen for you

Newmarket, Suffolk

Building a modern, flexible and multi-channel Learning and Development function that enables the business to achieve its goals and embed the culture

East Anglia, United Kingdon

To develop a culture of performance and development within Ridgeons that engages, inspires and attracts people to be part of a 4th generation family-owned business.

Welwyn Garden City

An advisory role within the board at Finesse Leisure Partnership, focusing on bringing inclusive and high quality leisure facilities and services to the local communityIn addition to this, I am a member of the People steering group for the organisation

St Albans

001 Ltd was established in 2001 and since then has successfully grown year on year through client recommendations. 'Quality and Savings' are paramount to our offerings and therefore 001 only invest in those who believe in this philosophy and drive its efficiency. We specialise in business electricity, gas, telecoms, water and waste utilities. We work with you to address all your needs and deal directly with suppliers for you. And with over 13 years’ experience, you know you’re in safe hands. We work on a no savings No Fee basis and can guarantee that you have nothing to lose by calling us for a FREE energy audit! Our Knowledge is Your Energy.... www.001ltd.co.uk

Various

I chose to take some time off work to travel to the Southern Hemisphere, including New Zealand and Australia. It was everything I hoped it would be.I have completed some blogs from my travelshttp://catherinedanndann.wordpress.com/

Tesco Stores Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire

Working across the Tesco Group matrix to ensure effective talent management, shared learnings and best practices and operational blueprint deployment through operational training (approx 1000 team members)Working as a business partner to a new team within a new function to understand the Tesco way, people routines and polices in a modern, multi-channel approach (approx 100 team members)Other responsibilities and activities- Supported selected Employee Relations 3rd party projects to mitigate risks (Central Europe)- Working with other group functions to designed specific Annual People plans

El Segundo, Los Angeles, California, Usa

The creator and gatekeeper of the ‘Fresh & Easy Academy’ for training, development and staff engagement in line with the business and manpower plans, using a blended learning and multi-channel approach. Along with this, development was focused on ‘leaders training leaders’ and on-going coaching which would sustain the unique business cultureTraining and Development : building training and development programs to build capability across the businessManpower / Resource planning and Talent Management : predicting manpower / resource requirements and supporting the talent within the business to meet these requirements Staff Engagement : designed and developed internal communication strategyAdditional responsibilities and activities- Annual People plan created and progress updates given- Managed selected Employee Relations 3rd party projects to mitigate risks- Created and lead implementation of store closure and team member redeployment programs across 3 states, with 97% employee retention

South East England

- Personnel manager, Gatwick Extra store : October 2005 – April 2007- Step change / productivity project manager : August 2004 – October 2005- Change management programme support role : August 2003 – August 2004- Senior manager positions in stores : December 1997 – August 2003- Graduate training programme : September 1996 – December 1997- Checkout manager : July 1995 – 1996

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, 2:1

BA (Hons) Economics, with majors in Econometrics, Development Economics and Economic History

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